John Pollock:Group Executive Director, Protection & Annuities

John is Group Executive Director of Protection & Annuities, and has been a member of the Practitioner Panel – representing Life Insurance – since 1 August 2011.

John joined Legal & General in 1980, spending 10 years in IT before moving to Individual Pensions in 1990.

In 1992 he was appointed to run the service centre for retail Life & Pensions products, before being appointed, in 1994, to lead the development of L&G’s employed salesforce.

In 1996, John moved to Sydney, Australia as Managing Director L&G Asia, before returning to the UK in 1999 as Managing Director, L&G Healthcare and Product Director for UK Protection and General Insurance.

In 2000, John was appointed to the UK board with responsibility for UK Operations and in 2003 was appointed to the Group PLC board as Executive Director, responsible for product development and for corporate risk businesses. In 2006, John took responsibility for L&G’s Risk businesses, incorporating, among other things, Individual Protection, Group Protection, General Insurance, Pensions Buy-Out, and Individual Retail Annuities.